George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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Brains are not everything.
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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice...
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.